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Adaptation of museum specimens for use in anatomical teaching aids
Author(s) -
HARRIS P. F.,
PRITCHARD C. A.,
SILVO F.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1977.tb00587.x
Subject(s) - radiography , computer science , medicine , anatomy , radiology
Summary Colour transparencies are prepared of a re‐colourized anatomical specimen after placing labels temporarily in position to indicate specific structures. The specimen is also radiographed to show skeletal and soft tissue structures and radio‐opaque materials and letters may be used to indicate certain parts. Having mounted the specimen it can then be placed in a teaching carrel together with the radiographs and a back‐slide projector for viewing the colour transparencies. The student is guided through an examination of the specimen using a script or sound‐tape. Frequent cross‐reference is made between the actual specimen, the colour transparencies on which certain parts of the specimen have been labelled, and also the radiographs. The examination is followed by self‐assessment questions relevant to the specimen and these may include identification of structures on a photograph of the specimen and on duplicate radiographs. In the final section of the aid, the answers to the self‐assessment questions are given.